SAN FRANCISCO – Over seven thousand people have already signed an online petition that Senator Leland Yee (D-San Francisco) launched Wednesday on his website to condemn Rush Limbaugh for offensive comments he recently made during his radio program. The petition calls on Limbaugh to apologize for mocking the Chinese culture and asks his sponsors to [...]
Over 7,000 Join Boycott of Limbaugh: Civil Rights Groups Join Yee in Condemning Limbaugh, Advertisers
January 28, 2011 By Leave a Comment
Soba cha
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Huddled over my laptop and nursing my cold with a warm roasty mug of soba cha (buckwheat tea) I was all set to write a bit about goma dofu (sesame tofu). I tried and tried to psych myself up to write about cold tofu but instead ended up daydreaming and reveling in the aroma of my tea. [...]
Advertise in the NBW’s annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Guide
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The Nichi Bei Weekly‘s annual Northern California Cherry Blossom Festival Guide, published on April 1, offers bilingual coverage of one of the region’s most important and popular cultural events. We print 30,000 copies and distribute them around the greater Sacramento, San Francisco, South Bay and East Bay areas. A unique advertising opportunity, the guide includes [...]
Get Green this Weekend
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Got no plans for the upcoming weekend? With apologies for being so last-minute on this, here are a couple activities to get you into the environmental swing of things: For my people in Chicago, the Chicago Botanic Garden is hosting a bonsai show and accompanying lecture to “celebrate the winter season in the Japanese tradition.” [...]
I feel slightly nausiated by this…
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Hey guys, it’s time to relax, it’s the weekend and… What is this? Where did this guy come from? I really want to watch this show, just to be allowed to yell profanities at it, but alas, the UK doesn’t let me watch it legally. But seriously, when you name your documentary off of a [...]
Susanne Tabata’s “Bloodied But Unbowed” Coming to SF
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Susanne Tabata’s “Bloodied But Unbowed” (2010), which chronicles the late 1970s/early 1980s Vancouver punk rock scene, is coming to the SF Indiefest, Feb. 3-17. Tabata previously directed a doc on Canadian Nikkei elders. “Bloodied But Unbowed” will have two screenings, Feb. 11 and Feb. 14, at the Roxie Theater.
Difficult job prospects for Japanese college grads
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A fascinating (and depressing) article from yesterday’s New York Times: In Japan, Young Face Generational Roadblocks Unemployment is obviously a huge problem in the U.S. right now. But the Japanese job market is also extremely tough, particularly for young graduates, many of whom have difficulty finding jobs right out of college (the typical recruiting style [...]
Nor Cal: Taiko group, Kodo, performs in Berkeley
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Revisions to the San Francisco Japantown Better Neighborhood Plan continue
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It’s been more than a year and a half since the draft Japantown Better Neighborhood Plan (BNP) was published and more than three years since the initiative was originally launched. The plan, a joint effort between the City of San Francisco and the community, is meant to govern the future growth and preservation of San [...]
APA Legal Center’s campaign to protect communities during redistricting
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Los Angeles — The Asian Pacific American Legal Center (APALC), a member of Asian American Center for Advancing Justice, has launched a campaign to engage Asian American and Pacific Islander (AAPI) communities in redistricting, the process of redrawing voting district boundaries every 10 years based on census data. APALC anchors a statewide network of AAPI [...]
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